Kane an able third-place playoff player

Belgium and England will meet in the World Cup playoff for third place with forwards Romelu Lukaku and Harry Kane vying for the Golden Boot.

Just as Belgium and England's dead-rubber group game carried a sense of unimportance, so third-place play-offs can be sterile affairs, with both teams still coming down from having missed out on a place in the final.

But England's Kane is favoured to take the Golden Boot prize for tournament top scorer home from Russia after scoring six goals so far.

Belgium's Lukaku has four goals, with French pair Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe, who play in Sunday's final, on three.

Both Kane and Lukaku were rested for that pedestrian final group game in Kaliningrad.

It was dubbed the game "no one wanted to win," with coaches Roberto Martinez and Gareth Southgate well aware the winning team would top Group G and set up a possible quarter-final meeting with Brazil.

Belgium won the match with a second-half goal from Adnan Januzaj.

Sure enough, after beating Japan in the last 16, they faced five-time tournament winners Brazil.